{"id":2174,"date":"2016-08-24T08:09:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T07:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2018-04-05T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:04:48","slug":"uber-announces-newport-second-welsh-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/uber-announces-newport-second-welsh-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber announces Newport as its second Welsh branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With our head offices situated down in Cardiff we like to keep an eye on the local hire market, with Cardiff&#8217;s redevelopment giving way to some incredible business opportunities. One market that always seems to triumph in Wales in vehicle rental, with the UK&#8217;s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/hire\/\">rental firm<\/a>, Transport Broker Group, also found in central Wales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/tag\/uber\/\">Uber<\/a>, the infamous taxi-booking app has this year introduced their services to Cardiff, today revealing that they will be opening a second branch in Cardiff&#8217;s neighbouring city, Newport. Suggesting a healthy start to their plans for Wales the transport firm must be generating sales, giving them the confidence to expand through the country.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to offering a safe and affordable ride for people in Newport in the near future, especially following our success in Cardiff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/tag\/uber\/\">Uber<\/a> has already proved popular in the more than 20 towns and cities across the UK and we\u2019re excited to be able to open the app for <a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/hire\/coach-hire\">private hire<\/a> drivers who are licensed by Newport City Council.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet to disclose a launch date the business will no doubt face another row with the city&#8217;s traditional taxi firms, with the huge competition <a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/tag\/uber\/\">Uber<\/a> brings never going down well with rivals.<\/p>\n<h3>Other taxi-booking apps<\/h3>\n<p>Since the company made such an impression in London the vehicle hire market has given us a whole string of similar products, seeing many trying to duplicate the success of <a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/tag\/uber\/\">Uber<\/a>. Below are a few examples of apps aiming to compete with <a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/tag\/uber\/\">Uber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hailo<\/li>\n<li>Fair Bookings<\/li>\n<li>Cabubble<\/li>\n<li>Minicabit<\/li>\n<li>Dad Taxi<\/li>\n<li>Easy Taxi<\/li>\n<li>And many more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let us know what you think, can Newport cabbies compete with the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/tag\/uber\/\">Uber<\/a> or are their plans for world hire domination in full swing? Leave your comments with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our head offices situated down in Cardiff we like to keep an eye on the local hire market, with Cardiff&#8217;s redevelopment giving way to some incredible business opportunities. One&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2543],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-news","category-hire-rental-news","tag-uber"],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}